Coltorti, Massimo; Hasenaka, Toshiaki; Briqueu, Louis; Baker, Peter E; Siena, Franca (1994): Petrology and chemistry of ODP Site 134-828 magmatic rocks [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.787490, Supplement to: Coltorti, M et al. (1994): Petrology and magmatic affinity of the North d'Entrecasteaux Ridge, Central New Hebrides Trench, Site 828. In: Green, HG; Collot, J-Y; Stokking, LB; et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 134, 353-362, https://doi.org/10.2973/odp.proc.sr.134.016.1994
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Abstract:
Petrography, major and trace elements, mineral chemistry, and Sr, Nd, and Pb isotopic ratios are reported for igneous rocks drilled on the northern flank of the North d'Entrecasteaux Ridge (NDR) during Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 134 Site 828. These rocks comprise a breccia unit beneath a middle Eocene foraminiferal ooze. Both geophysical characteristics and the variety of volcanic rocks found at the bottom of Holes 828A and 828B indicate that a very immature breccia or scree deposit was sampled.
Basalts are moderately to highly altered, but primary textures are well preserved. Two groups with different magmatic affinities, unrelated to the stratigraphic height, have been distinguished. One group consists of aphyric to sparsely plagioclase + clinopyroxene-phyric basalts, characterized by high TiO2 (~2 wt%) and low Al2O3 (less than 15 wt%) contents, with flat MORB-normalized incompatible element patterns and LREE-depleted chondrite-normalized REE patterns. This group resembles N-MORB.
The other group comprises moderately to highly olivine + plagioclase-phyric basalts with low TiO2 (<1 wt%) and high Al2O3 (usually >15 wt%) contents, and marked HFSE depletion and LFSE enrichment. Some lavas in this group are picritic, with relatively high modal olivine abundances, and MgO contents up to 15 wt%. Both the basalts and picritic basalts of this group reflect an influence by subduction-related processes, and have compositions transitional between MORB and IAT. Lavas with similar geochemical features have been reported from small back-arc basins such as the Mariana Trough, Lau Basin, Sulu Sea, and the North Fiji Basin and are referred to as back-arc basin basalts. However, regional tectonic considerations suggest that the spreading that produced these backarc basin basalts may have occurred in the forearc region of the southwest-facing island arc that existed in this region in the Eocene.
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Latitude: -15.288000 * Longitude: 166.284000
Date/Time Start: 1990-10-25T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1990-10-27T00:00:00
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- Coltorti, M; Hasenaka, T; Briqueu, L et al. (1994): (Table 1) Major, trace element and Sr, Nd, Pb isotopic analyses of igneous rocks recovered from ODP Site 134-828. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.787488
- Coltorti, M; Hasenaka, T; Briqueu, L et al. (1994): (Table 2) Representative clinopyroxene compositions of basaltic rocks recovered from ODP Hole 134-828A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.787489